O Intermitente<br> (So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, good-bye)

O Intermitente
(So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, good-bye)

domingo, junho 08, 2003

Treasures dating to 900 B.C. found in secret Iraqi vault(via The Corner)


The world-famous treasures of Nimrud, unaccounted for since Baghdad fell two months ago, have been located in good condition in the country's Central Bank -- in a secret vault-inside-a-vault submerged in sewage water, U.S. occupation authorities said Saturday.

They also said that fewer than 50 items from the collection of the Iraqi National Museum's main exhibition still are missing after the looting and destruction that followed the U.S. capture of Baghdad


Das milhares de peças que presumivelmente teriam sido saqueadas afinal faltam menos de 50. Não nos podemos esquecer que, destas, algumas podem estar guardadas noutros locais ou terem sido, há muito, vendidas pelo antigo regime iraquiano.
No entanto o mito do saque do museu de Bagdade continua a ser difundido. Aqui como no caso das citações dos discursos de Wolfowitz de tantao se repetir a mentira esta passa a ser uma verdadeira universalmente aceite,

posted by Miguel Noronha 8:11 da tarde

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